Linux is not an Operating System

Posted by Erlik on Jul 14, 2009 5:20 PM EDT
Tech-no-media; By Eric Van Haesendonck 		Mail this story
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Last week Google announced their intention to release an operating system based on Linux. The reaction of some people on reddit was: "No, another neutered, watered-down, crapitized "linux". Linux will once again be viewed as a sub par, 'specialized' OS." Well, this is not possible because Linux is not really an operating system, it is a kernel. And it is actually very successful as a specialized operating system's kernel.

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